Typhoon Mitag moved nearer to northeastern Taiwan on Sunday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Mitag was located near latitude 22.3\u00b0N and longitude 122.7\u00b0E which put it about 180 miles (290 km) south-southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Mitag was moving toward the northwest at 14 m.p.h. (22 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 976 mb.<\/p>\n
Former Tropical Storm Mitag strengthened into a typhoon on Sunday.\u00a0 A circular eye appeared at the center of Typhoon Mitag on satellite images.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of thunderstorms.\u00a0 There were some breaks in the ring of storms, but the strongest winds were occurring in the ring.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Typhoon Mitag.\u00a0 Storms near the core were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away in all directions.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 50 miles (80 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 185 miles (295 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Mitag will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 Mitag will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are not too strong and there will not be a lot of vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Typhoon Mitag could strengthen on Monday if the center of circulation does not pass over northeastern Taiwan.\u00a0 If the center of Mitag does move over Taiwan, then the typhoon will weaken,<\/p>\n
Typhoon Mitag will move around the western end of a ridge of high pressure over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Mitag toward the north-northwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Typhoon Mitag will be near northeastern Taiwan within 12 hours.\u00a0 Mitag could drop heavy rain over parts of Taiwan and flash floods are possible.\u00a0 Rainbands in the eastern side of the typhoon will bring gusty winds and heavy rain to the southern Ryukyu Islands.\u00a0 Typhoon Mitag could approach the east coast of China near Taizhou in about 36 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Mitag moved nearer to northeastern Taiwan on Sunday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Mitag was located near latitude 22.3\u00b0N and longitude 122.7\u00b0E which put it about 180 miles (290 km) south-southeast of Taipei, Taiwan.\u00a0 Mitag was moving toward the northwest at 14 m.p.h. (22 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[176,43,44,1716,194,1081,42,1147,1722,1145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8535,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions\/8535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}